SixDegrees.com
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| social network | |
| languages | English |
| operator | MacroView |
| user | > 1 million |
| Registration | Yes |
| On-line | 1997 (currently closed in 2013) |
SixDegrees.com was an online service to build a social network ( Social Network Service ), which was founded in 1997 and pioneered this site genre is considered.
The name refers to the Six Degrees of Separation , the average of six acquaintances through which, according to studies on the small world phenomenon, any two people are in contact with each other.
features
According to a study published by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, SixDegrees.com was the first service to have the basic characteristics of today's social network sites : The service made it possible to create profile pages, list friendship relationships with other users and search other users' lists of friends.
Over a message system befriended participants were up to the third degree of acquaintance communicate with each other and a forum system unsubscribe discussions. Use of the service was free; SixDegrees.com was funded through advertising.
history
SixDegrees.com was founded in 1997 by lawyer and financial analyst Andrew Weinreich.
The service, initially open to all interested parties, was sold to YouthStream Media Networks in 2000 , but was temporarily discontinued in 2001. In 2010 SixDegrees.com was revived as a closed network of invited participants. The page has not been accessible since mid-2013; the last entry in the Internet Archive is from March 2013.
Although SixDegrees.com had more than a million subscribers during its heyday in the late 1990s, it failed to turn the website into a profitable business. According to the founder, Weinreich, this was due to the fact that at that time users rarely had large groups of friends active on the Internet. Therefore SixDegrees.com suffered from a lack of content and therefore from reasons to stay on the site. The service also had problems with spam .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c A Forefather of Social Media: Andrew Weinreich and SixDegrees.com ( Memento from August 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), emuprssa.com, May 26, 2012
- ^ A b Danah Boyd, Nicole Ellison: Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship , Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 13, Issue 1, December 17, 2007. Online version